Family members of late baseball legend and Birmingham-native Willie Mays are working to preserve his childhood home in Fairfield.
The June auction also featured other Willie Mays Type 1 photos and collectibles, including baseball cards, signed balls and bats. Ken Goldin commented that baseball was "forever changed the day ...
In Alabama, we visit the ball field where the late Willie Mays made his professional debut, and look into today’s efforts to increase Black representation in baseball. Then in Illinois ...
Seventy years later it’s still considered the greatest defensive play in World Series history. Running headlong toward the ...
A photo of Willie Mays hangs in the Mays Suite at AT&T Park in San Francisco. (Jerry Holt/Star Tribune via Getty Images) “I remember hearing about the struggles that he endured because he was Black, ...
“The Say Hey Kid” Willie Howard Mays Jr. (1931–2024) began his career in the Negro Leagues (1947) before joining the Major League’s New York Giants in 1951. Excepting time in military service ...
When it came to skill sets in baseball, Willie Mays possessed them all: he was a consistent hitter with power, a marvel on defense, a speedy baserunner, and a clutch performer in all facets of the ...
Live in Concert New Reason to Doubt That Recent FBI Crime Statistics Are Sufficiently ... Who was your favorite Detroit Tiger when you were young? Willie Mays was (and still is) my favorite ...
Aaron Judge and the New York Yankees will face Shohei Ohtani and the Los Angeles Dodgers in the 12th World Series meeting ...
Notable deaths of 2024: Remembering Willie Mays, Princess Ira von Fürstenberg, Shannen Doherty, Richard Simmons and others who have died, so far, this year. Jan. 4, age 100 | British actress ...
It’s been four months since baseball legend Willie Mays died at 93-years-old. Over the last several months there’s been ...
Willie Mays began his professional baseball career with the Birmingham Black Barons, who barnstormed the Jim Crow South as a member of the Negro Southern League. Mays was a 24-time All-Star and ...